THE Welsh Ambulance Service is marking improvements it has made half way through a two year campaign.

Since the 1,000 Lives campaign was launched in April 2008 a number of improvements have been made to the service.

Chief executive Alan Murray said: “We are delighted with the excellent progress which has been made so far. We know that our staff save lives every day and the 1000 Lives Campaign is helping them to save more.”

The patient safety campaign aims to save 1,000 lives and avoid up to 50,000 episodes of harm in Welsh healthcare by April 2010.